An extract from the best-selling book on the trial of the former Goldman Sachs director who has been ordered to pay USD 6.2 million to his former employer for legal expenses in the insider trading case

The former Goldman Sachs director is appealing the convictions, but generally appeals don’t go in favour of the defendant unless the appellate court finds an egregious malfeasance of justice. A failed appeal can be doubly damaging:

The US district court judge explained that while giving Rajat Gupta a lighter sentence of two years, he wanted to ensure that others must "be made to understand that when you get caught, you will go to jail"

Over 50 members of the Rajya Sabha sign a letter to be handed over to the Vice President seeking to initiate proceedings for the removal of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran. Text of the impeachment motion.

Forum for Judicial Accountability writes again to the CJI and the SC colleguium, providing additional details as to why "a judge who has grabbed public property and has compromised public interest" should not be appointed to the SC

To those who remember the history of 1929, the current crisis and rising public anger bears a painfully familiar ring. It happened once before -- a vital chapter in the ongoing story of how an old regime dies and a new one is born.

The NSA's statement at Munich may have caused a stir now, but the subject has been engaging the attention of not only intelligence and security agencies, but also stock market regulating authorities for many years.